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You could always hire a certain someone I know. Lovely person to talk to. She handles web projects for her employer - who thinks she's a wizard. She's the living embodiment of the 'stream of consciousness' school of programming...

You could always hire a certain someone I know. Lovely person to talk to. She handles web projects for her employer - who thinks she's a wizard. She's the living embodiment of the 'stream of consciousness' school of programming...

Actually that style worked pretty well for web programming for the longest time, since http is a)linear and b)amnesiac. The industry is full of people like that who managed quite well on the server side programming.It's harder in our days of ajax, html5, rich interfaces in javascript, flash and silverlight etc.

You could always hire a certain someone I know. Lovely person to talk to. She handles web projects for her employer - who thinks she's a wizard. She's the living embodiment of the 'stream of consciousness' school of programming...

Actually that style worked pretty well for web programming for the longest time, since http is a)linear and b)amnesiac. The industry is full of people like that who managed quite well on the server side programming.It's harder in our days of ajax, html5, rich interfaces in javascript, flash and silverlight etc.

It can be extremely difficult sometimes when you're working with umpteen trillion different technologies.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some things, but whatever. Point is, it takes a lot of effort to keep each section separate and clean and working well with every other part. It's easy to see why some things turn into complete disasters. (I've been taking my time to make certain that things are as maintainable as possible. e.g. TONS of comments in code with everything as atomic as possible.)

In some ways, you're kind of like a conductor when you're programming -- it's up to you to orchestrate everything and "make music".

The woman I was speaking of dates back to the "fly by the seat of your pants" era in web development; and built her reputation back when transparent 1-pixel gifs were considered a brilliant web hack. Unfortunately, she has not kept up with current best practices.

Utterly hilarious. What's also great about that piece is that it serves as a good reminder about annoying practices.

I should probably ashamed, but... I do like some of the "Hungarian notation" principles... I find that, more often then not, it makes my code more readable in a simple text editor. Of course, more readable to me, hehe.

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"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."Glenn Gould

"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."Glenn Gould

"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."Glenn Gould